With the release of AAMEE 3.1, AAMEE created MSI supports both silent and UI based installation.

For UI based install of AAMEE 3.1 created packages, run the MSI as an administrator. If you are logged in as Admin user, you can double click it, otherwise right click the MSI and run as administrator. A minimalistic UI will be shown with just a progress bar. Any error during MSI install will cause a roll back and the user should check the logs to see what went wrong. You can also run the MSI in UI mode through this command line –

msiexec.exe /i <path of msi>

AAMEE still supports silent installation as the standard way of deploying the packages. Silent installation can be done only through the command line option –

msiexec.exe /i <path of msi> /qn.

Make sure that the command line is invoked with admin privileges. For users using SCCM 2007 for deploying AAMEE created packages, make sure to check “Allow users to interact with this program” checkbox in Environment tab of the SCCM Program for UI based installation. The corresponding checkbox for SCCM 2012 is “Allow users to view and interact with the program installation”.

For uninstallation of MSI in UI mode, there is only a command line option –

msiexec.exe /x <path of msi>

For silent uninstallation, add the /qn switch with the above command line –

I had contented myself that I would use a batch file and require users to right-click and run as admin on the batch file. This was so that I could get Acrobat 10 installed at the same time. However, now that I have Acrobat 11, and I can separate out the installers, I would like to get back to this "double-click" method. I've verified that my new package (without Acrobat) works using the msiexec command. However, it still doesn't work as a double-click.

However, I am an admin on the machine, just as I am on all the machines that I've tested this on. And when I use a batch file with the msiexec and right-click and run as admin, I don't have to put other credentials in, verifying that I am, in fact, an admin on the machine.